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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Aurea Aetas channels raw black metal from Kecskemét, the administrative heart of Bács-Kiskun County on the Great Hungarian Plain. Formed in 2020, their name — Latin for 'Golden Age' — carries an ironic weight against their lo-fi sonic hostility.
Raw black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, whose 2023 debut demo "Demo I" was recorded across spring and summer of that year and released as a free download. The five-track release features darkly evocative track titles—including "Thousands of Gleaming Candles" and "Endless Spiral Staircase to the Womb of Infinite Dungeons"—with the band describing themselves simply as "the rising dawn."
Auxilium practices raw black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2014. Their Latin name meaning 'aid' or 'help' creates an ironic contrast with the hostile, alienating quality of their lo-fi compositions.
Aversion Cult creates raw black metal from an undisclosed Russian location as of 2025. Their repulsion-worship name drives lo-fi compositions of deliberate hostility and ritualized disgust.
Awaketh conjures raw black metal from the remote Galician town of Soutomaior since 2020, channeling the region's mist and isolation into stripped-down ferocity. Their lo-fi approach embraces the genre's most primitive traditions from Spain's rural northwest.
Manchester's Axis of Light operate in raw black metal territory, crafting lo-fi compositions that prioritise atmosphere and primal aggression over production polish. Formed in 2022, the project explores the genre's most uncompromising extremes with a stripped-back, confrontational approach.
Mansfield's Azalith deliver raw black metal with an emphasis on lo-fi production and primal intensity. Emerging in 2023, the project strips the genre to its rawest essence with buzzing tremolo riffs and relentless blast beats.
Aziraal channels raw black metal from the tiny Charente-Maritime village of Talmont-sur-Gironde since 2024, one of France's most picturesque medieval settlements perched above the Gironde estuary. The contrast between their idyllic setting and their hostile sound creates a compelling tension.
Ašarma practices raw black metal from Kurgan in the Trans-Ural region since 2021. Their diacritical-laden name adds visual distinction to lo-fi compositions from this western Siberian steppe city.
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